I am a London‑based painter, with a BA (2016) and an MA (2022) from Central Saint Martins. 

 

My practice is driven by an ongoing study of native wildflowers, their mythos, cultural and historical importance. I mainly work with oil paints creating paintings of anthropomorphic flowers with entangled legs passing through liminal landscapes, emphasizing the contrasting feelings of vulnerability and resilience.

It’s my aim to create a visual language referencing animism to explore our modern relationship, or lack there of, with the natural world. Finding inspiration in the works of surrealists such as - Ithell Colquhoun, Leonora Carrington and Dorothea Tanning. My paintings carry a dream‑like, numinous quality that probes viewers to suspend disbelief and centre themselves in the narrative. I want to encourage audiences to reflect on their relationship with nature, reminding them that, though often overlooked, misunderstood or maligned, this bond is integral to who we are.

 

As it has developed my practice increasingly exists through a feminist lens. Flowers, as with female artists, have historically been sidelined as ornamentation and confined to that of the ‘feminine virtues’. The flower, for me, has become a coded symbol of strength in femininity. The choice of creating anthropomorphic flowers as my primary subject, therefore, is a deliberate one. In doing so I hope to subvert expectation and honour the legacy of those who came before, by being steadfast in my own agency as an artist and using flowers to critique gendered constraints while being centered in ecological concerns.